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-T Stable licenses 180 Volunteers continued to play an active part in the Pesticide licenses 520 smooth operation of the library. They donated thousand of hours of their time,helping with children's programs, Food service licenses 5,675 Retail food licenses 1,480 covering books, mending books, typing, filing and shelv ing returned materials.Their generosity is appreciated and Bakery, Catering & Mobile food licenses 1,500 Misc. 297 is a major factor in making Mashpee one of the few Cape Recycling recovery outstanding credit 750 libraries which did not reduce its hours of operation in $84,922 SUB TOTAL 1991. $132,193 Regional transfer station revenues Respectfully submitted, TOTAL BOARD OF HEALTH $217,115 REVENUES: Helene B. DeFoe Library Director This amount does not include the$92,935 taken in by Report of the the Town Clerk's office for 3698 residential transfer sta- Board of Health tion stickers. Once again, we commend Jane Labute and her staff for this tedous and often thankless task. Amongst its other activities,the Board of Health con- To the Citizens of Mashpee: ducted the following services during 1991: We, the Board of Health, respectfully submit our an- Food Service inspections 147 nual report for the calendar year 1991. Housing inspections 73 Septic inspections 77 During 1991, the Town generated 5,720 tons of trash. Pool inspections 33 This is a reduction of 595 tons over 1990! Congratula- Drinking water samples 60 tions to all our recyclers. During 1991 we recycled the Surface water tests 60 following: Complaint investigations 157 Emergency responses 25 164 tons of newspapers; 26 tons of clear glass; Both the Agent and Assistant Agent were extremely 23 tons of colored glass; busy both during hurricane Bob evacuating people from I ton of plastics; low lying areas and assisting in the shelter at the Middle 154 tons of white goods (refrigerators, stoves, etc.); School and for the entire week following the storm. We 1935 gals. of waste oil (approx. 10 tons) assisted in providing drinking water to those residents 1408 tires (approx. 14 tons). whose well was inoperable due to lack of power and in spected all food establishments for compliance with the State Sanitary Code. A total of thirty-five hours of over- The cost of the recycling operation, including the monitoring, was $14,352. As the market conditions im- time was donated to the Town by our Agents who logg- Fi prove, our costs will decrease accordingly. Our contract ed a total of 1175 miles during the week following"Bob". with the Se-mass waste-to-energy plant in Rochester allows us to reduce our contractual minimum tonnage Our consulting engineers, Weston & Sampson of commitment by the amount that the Town recycles. So, Peabody, MA, are on schedule in their Feasibility Study please, keep up the good work! for a regional septage treatment plant along with the Town of Sandwich which would be located adjacent to the renovated wastewater treatment plant at the Massachusetts Military Reservation. In the event this solution to our lagoon problems does not appear feasi- Revenues generated by the Board of Health include: ble either from an economic or operations and manage- ment standpoint, we are concurrently pursuing our own Perc tests & extensions $6,375 facility planning for a septage treatment plant to be New and repair septic permits 8,515 located on the landfill property. The State approval pro- Well permits 9,400 cess, however, continues to be painfully slow. Septic installers licenses 9,400 Due to the severe(17%)budget cut this department in- Septage pumpers licenses 2,800 curred for the current fiscal year,our part-time(24 hrs-/ Septage pumping tickets 11,600 week) clerk was laid off and our assistant agent's hours Trash haulers licenses 5,500 were reduced from 40 to 28 hours per week. This put a Residential stickers 320 tremendous strain on the department, which we hope to Commercial stickers 4,625 rectify in fiscal 1993. Trailer parks taxes 19,510 Inns/motels licenses 600 Pool permits 2,500 milk. 80